Sitting here bored, waiting for FP3 to start I had the bright idea of comparing the performance of the new teams by pretending that no-one else was racing. So I awarded the same points for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. as are normally awarded i.e. 25, 18, 12, ….. I only awarded points if the driver finished the race. This is what I got:

Group B Drivers Championship

Heikki Kovalainen – 194

Timo Glock – 141

Lucas di Grassi – 116

Jarno Trulli – 92

Karun Chandock – 92

Brunno Senna – 64

Sakon Yamamoto – 28

Group B Constructors Championship

Lotus – 286

Virgin – 257

HRT – 184

The real surprises for me is that Trulli isn’t higher, and Chandock is on the same points as Trulli even though he’s missed the last four races.

I made a couple of mistakes in the version above. I also realised that the points should be awarded as classified – e.g. Kov gets points for today (Singapore) even though he didn’t finish. So here is the updated list including Singapore:

I wouldn’t say that bad for Senna. The new teams scoring (in this championship) often comes down to reliability for instance Trulli would be much better p-erhaps if he ahdn’t had such rotten luck esp with his DNS. Not only that but Virgin and Lotus I believe have had at least some upgrades whereas HRT can barely afford the paint job when they swap drivers.

Great thread credible nice idea. I suppose most of what we see there is down to luck but it is interesting to see none the less. I reckon Bruno would be a bit higher up where it not for his 7 mechanical retirements.

So that’s it! Senna has officially lost to Chandhok! That is horrifyingly embarrassing for Senna! Despite the fact that they’ve finished the same number of races, without a doubt Bruno should really have done a lot better this season.